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  Arun Gandhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arun Manilal Gandhi (born April 14, 1934, Durban, South Africa) is the fifth grandson of Mahatma Gandhi through his second son Manilal.
Born to Sushila and Manilal Gandhi, Arun's childhood days under South Africa's apartheid for someone of Indian heritage was considerably difficult, humiliating, and often violently abusive.
It was later revealed that Gandhi was on the payrole of the PLO [2].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arun_Gandhi   (591 words)

  
 Victory Over Violence
Gandhi taught that the little things we do everyday are acts of violence and that only by taking care of these little things can we begin to take care of the big issues of violence.
Gandhi suggested to Arun that he draw a "Family Tree of Violence" with violence as the grandparent and physical violence and passive violence as the two offsprings.
Arun Gandhi says from this he came to realize how violent he was and through this exercise he began to change his behavior.
www.vov.com /experiences/gandhi.html   (791 words)

  
 TCRE text
Gandhi told her that he had to give up sugar for 15 days before he could ask the boy to do the same.
Gandhi said that was only one of the many lessons he learned from his grandfather, who taught non-violence as a path to peace.
Gandhi said the pamphlets his grandfather took his first lessons in being a husband from were chauvinistic.
www.record-eagle.com /1999/mar/10peace.htm   (576 words)

  
 GlobalTribe . Voices . Arun Gandhi | PBS
Arun Gandhi travels the world passing on the wisdom he learned from his grandfather and teaching people how to apply the principles of nonviolence in their daily lives.
ARUN GANDHI: Well he said this when he was speaking after prayer service and he mentioned this because people kept saying to him that the world has to change for us to change.
ARUN GANDHI: I still consider him to be a light that is shining and making it easy for me to pursue the goals that he had envisaged.
www.pbs.org /kcet/globaltribe/voices/voi_gandhi.html   (1617 words)

  
 Manilal Gandhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manilal Mohandas Gandhi (October 28, 1892, - 1956) was the second son of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi and was active in his father's movement.
Gandhi worked for almost four decades, from 1917 onwards, as the editor of the Gujarati-English weekly publication, Indian Opinion, at Phoenix.
Like his father, Gandhi was also sent to jail several times by the British colonial government after protesting against unjust laws.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manilal_Gandhi   (126 words)

  
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One of Gandhi’s most striking actions was the salt march known as the Dandi March, that started on March 12, 1930 and ended on April 5, when he led thousands of people to the sea to collect their own salt rather than pay the salt tax.
Gandhi was assassinated in Birla house, New Delhi on January 30, 1948 by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu radical who held him responsible for weakening the new government by insisting on a payment to Pakistan.
Gandhi’s dying words were a popular two-word mantra to the Hindu conception of God as Rama "Hai Ram!" It is seen as an inspiring signal of his spirituality as well as his idealism regarding the possibility of unificatory peace.
www.emma.tv /awards/personalities/mahatma_gandhi.aspx   (684 words)

  
 Arun Gandhi: Principles in Non-Violence - The Hartley Film Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, heeded his grandfather’s charge to “plant seeds in the minds of people, in hopes that they will germinate,” when he founded the Gandhi Institute in Memphis, TN, in order to spread the seeds of peace.
Mahatma Gandhi frequently spoke, according to his grandson, about the “eight sins: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, commerce without morality, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle, rights without responsibility, knowledge without character, and science without humanity.” A society and culture free of these sins would be a society without violence, he said.
Arun notes that none of the blind men were absolutely wrong and none of the blind men were absolutely right.
www.hartleyvideos.org /arun_gandhi.htm   (401 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | South Asia | Gandhi's non-violence message to Mid-East
Arun Gandhi, the fifth grandson of the spiritual leader, is speaking at public meetings organised by a group of Palestinian social and political activists in Ramallah, Abu Dis and Bethlehem that begin on Thursday.
For 70-year-old Arun Gandhi, who runs an institute in Memphis, USA, to "examine, promote, and apply the principles of non-violent thought and action" through research and community services, this is his first visit to the Palestinian territories.
Arun, whose father, Manilal, was Gandhi's second son, was born in Durban, South Africa and lived there for 23 years.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/3593726.stm   (724 words)

  
 Arun Gandhi to present UI Human Rights Lecture Jan. 21   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Arun's lecture, "Why the Gandhi and King Dreams Remained Unfilled," is drawn from his book of a similar title and will describe how he believes all people can improve race relations with efforts embodied by Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Arun dedicated himself to helping other people when at 23, he founded the Center for Social Unity, an Indian organization tasked to mollify caste system discrimination and poverty by helping the system's "untouchables" with self-help models of commerce.
Arun's most recent historical book, "Gandhi for Youth" was written for young readers, and his earlier work "Testament to Truth," is a compilation of his grandfather's writings.
www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/1999/january/0111arun.html   (344 words)

  
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Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, talks about the lessons his grandfather taught him during a Nov. 11 lecture series sponsored by the doctoral program in educational leadership, policy and law and the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at ASU.
Arun said about 85 percent of all violence in our lives is because of anger, but through his own commitment to peace and his patience with his grandson, Mahatma showed Arun nonviolent solutions.
Arun Gandhi related a story about how his grandfather sold his autograph to fund his programs to help the emancipation of Indian women and the “untouchables.” The younger Gandhi’s job was to collect the autograph books and money at prayer meetings his grandfather led.
www.alasu.edu /asutoday/print.aspx?id=328   (497 words)

  
 Presentation
Gandhi said his grandfather believed that each person in the world has a particular talent derived from their education, but has been misguided to believe they should use that talent to further their personal ambitions rather than for helping other people.
Arun’s lessons came at a time of great change and struggle in India as his grandfather was playing a pivotal role in the emergence of a new society.
Arun Gandhi described the prayer services his grandfather held, which were additionally used to raise funds for the programs Mahatma Gandhi was sponsoring to empower the impoverished.
info.worldbank.org /etools/bspan/PresentationView.asp?PID=1303&EID=641   (1204 words)

  
 Vanderbilt University Register: Gandhi's grandson encourages non-violence
Arun Gandhi, grandson of the world-renowned spiritual and political leader Mahatma Gandhi, said non-violence is an active philosophy against injustice.
Just three weeks after the terrorist attacks on the United States, Arun Gandhi, the grandson of the man who brought down British rule in India through nonviolence, condemned the acts of Sept. 11 while urging that the lessons of his grandfather not be forgotten.
Gandhi, founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Memphis, stressed that nonviolence is not passive, but is an active philosophy against injustice.
www.vanderbilt.edu /News/register/Oct8_01/story5.html   (667 words)

  
 Grandpa Gandhi
But a recent lecture by his Grandson, Arun Gandhi, which I was fortunate enough to attend, exposes us to another layer of this extraordinary human being whose personal life and private life seem integrated by the same string of non-violence that ran through his public life.
Gandhi responded by telling his grandson he would not be treated differently than anyone else and if he wanted an autograph he would have to pay for it, further adding that he would not ask his parents for the money, but would work to earn it himself.
Gandhi was particularly disturbed by the oppression of children in the world and worked hard to offer the little ones the respect and dignity they deserve.
www.cliftonunitarian.com /toddstalks/grandpagandhi.htm   (2114 words)

  
 Mohandas Gandhi [encyclopedia]
Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Gujarat, India.
Gandhi translated Tolstoy's "Letter to a Hindu" which was written in 1908 in response to aggressive Indian nationalists, and the two corresponded until Tolstoy's death in 1910.
Gandhi was a larger-than-life figure in relations between the Hindu and Muslim communities of India.
www.artzia.com /History/Biography/Gandhi   (543 words)

  
 Temple University Ambler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Arun Gandhi, who with his wife, Sunanda, founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, will speak about his experiences and the important lessons he learned from his legendary grandfather during a special program on Thursday, September 20, at 7:30 p.m., in Temple University Ambler's Bright Hall Lounge.
Arun Gandhi's visit came during a crucial period in the history of India and the life of Mahatma Gandhi.
Arun Gandhi will be available for a press conference prior to his lecture at 6:30 p.m.
www.temple.edu /ambler/news/press_releases/mgandhi.htm   (873 words)

  
 Tampabay: Another Gandhi brings goodwill to USF
Arun Gandhi, who lectures today at the University of South Florida, is the fifth grandson of Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi.
Mahatma Gandhi, having already walked miles to the ocean to protest the taxation of salt, having already spun clothes to protest overpriced British goods, was now occupied with India's transfer of power.
Arun Gandhi was born to the second son of Mahatma Gandhi, who had four sons and 12 grandchildren before being shot and killed in 1948 by a fanatic Hindu.
www.sptimes.com /2002/02/22/TampaBay/Another_Gandhi_brings.shtml   (580 words)

  
 News Releases
More than 18 months later, Arun Gandhi had subscribed to his grandfather's powerful philosophy of nonviolence, as Mahatma Gandhi was leading the people of India in their nonviolent struggle for independence from British rule.
Arun Gandhi came to the United States in 1988 to complete research for a comparative study on racism in America.
Gandhi's appearance is sponsored by the College's Lilly Program on the Liberal Arts and Vocation, a five-year program funded by a $1.4 million grant from the Lilly Endowment's Programs for the Theological Reflection on Vocation.
www.grinnell.edu /offices/ce/news/031420031/jnl   (367 words)

  
 Arun Gandhi to lecture on nonviolence at Wake Forest University
Gandhi's Grandson to Lecture on Nonviolence at WFU
Arun Gandhi, whose grandfather Mahatma Gandhi helped India secure its nationhood through nonviolent resistance to oppression, will lecture on nonviolence Thursday, Oct. 16, at Wake Forest University for its 1997-98 Year of Religion in American Life.
Gandhi is currently working on a biography of his grandmother, Kastur, who died while in prison with her husband.
www.wfu.edu /wfunews/1997/092997g.htm   (338 words)

  
 College of the Holy Cross | Public Affairs | Arun Gandhi, Grandson of Mahatma, to Speak
Arun Gandhi, Grandson of Mahatma, to Speak at Holy Cross
Arun Gandhi, grandson of legendary peace fighter and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi, will give a public lecture at Holy Cross on Thursday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Arun will speak about the influence his grandfather had in shaping his life, his personal views on nonviolence, and the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, which he founded with his wife, Sunanda, in 1991.
www.holycross.edu /publicaffairs/features/2004-2005/gandhi   (575 words)

  
 OutSmart - This Issue
Arun Gandhi was born in the Phoenix Ashram in South Africa, which Mahatma Gandhi founded in 1903 when he was first testing his ideas about nonviolence.
Arun’s parents carried on the work of the ashram, and Arun felt the center’s efforts probably contributed to the fall of apartheid.
Arun Gandhi was happy to talk to OutSmart, and share some of his vision about the ongoing and everchanging search for truth.
www.outsmartmagazine.com /issue/i12-00/gandhi.html   (5043 words)

  
 Arun Gandhi lecture coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Arun Gandhi's childhood was spent in apartheid South Africa, where he grew angry at the discrimination he received as an Indian youth.
Gandhi mentioned that he is often asked what his grandfather might have done after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
Gandhi concluded his lecture with a vision of world peace that he hoped the audience would keep with them: "If you allow the peace to interact with all the elements, you will then be able to respect the peace around, and it will multiply, and very soon we will have a whole world of peace."
www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.new/Chronicle/03/3.13.03/Gandhi_cover.html   (498 words)

  
 rediff.com: Grandson Preaches the Mahatma's Message
For over a decade since he established the M K Gandhi Institute of Nonviolence in Memphis, Tennessee, Arun Gandhi and his wife Sunanda have addressed hundreds of colleges and schools across America, preaching action-oriented nonviolence.
The M K Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence was founded in 1991 when Arun Gandhi and Sunanda provided seed money for the Institute through the sale of Mahatma Gandhi's letters to his son, Manilal, and daughter-in-law, Sushila -- Arun's parents.
Arun Gandhi is also involved with San Diego-based Tariq Khamisa Foundation founded by the father (Azim Khamisa) of a murdered teenager and the grandfather (Ples Felix) of Tony Hicks, the murderer who was also teenager.
www.rediff.com /news/2001/apr/16us1.htm   (564 words)

  
 The Memphis Flyer: Cover Story - October 1, 1998
Arun was born at Phoenix Farms, the commune near Durban, South Africa, that his grandfather founded in 1903 during his struggle for human rights in the racially divided country.
The Gandhis came to the University of Mississippi in 1987 on a one-year fellowship from the United Methodist Church.
Arun and Sunanda spent the first part of this year celebrating the Season for Nonviolence, a 64-day period commemorating the 50th and 30th anniversaries of M.K. Gandhi’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassinations, respectively.
www.memphisflyer.com /backissues/issue502/cvr502.htm   (2991 words)

  
 Nonviolent legacy lives on - News
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, spoke at Temple Wednesday about the importance of seeking peaceful solutions to the world's problems.
Gandhi began the speech with a story describing the first time he was exposed to his grandfather's teachings.
Gandhi's grandfather taught him not to respond to his anger violently because violence is not the right way of seeking justice.
www.temple-news.com /news/2004/02/12/News/Nonviolent.Legacy.Lives.On-605924.shtml   (690 words)

  
 Arun Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, is to kick off an unarmed Palestinian movement against Israeli occupation which is being launched by a group of social and political activists in Ramallah.
Gandhi, head of the MK Gandhi Institute for non-violence in the US, will be the star attraction at three mass rallies planned in Ramallah, Abu Dis and Bethlehem on August 26.
Gandhi told daily Ha'aretz from the US that he intends "to promote the philosophy of nonviolence, the approach that nonviolence is the only venue that can solve our problems."
www.tlca.com /adults/gandhi.html   (463 words)

  
 Arun Gandhi speaks of nonviolence to TTU audience   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Gandhi's grandson, Arun, found that out as a 12-year-old living in his grandfather's home in 1946, on the eve of India's independence.
Gandhi Center for Nonviolence, told of the lessons his grandfather taught him and of experiences with his parents, his grandmother and ones on his own as he's worked to carry Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence to individuals and groups around the globe.
Despite it being dark, Arun Gandhi was instructed to go out and retrieve the pencil from the bush where he had thrown it on his walk home from school.
web.utk.edu /~mpantalo/arun.html   (731 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Now: Arun Gandhi to Speak Oct. 19
Gandhi has said that his grandparents turned him away from seeking revenge for his injuries by teaching him that justice cannot be achieved through violence, but only by transforming one's opponent through love and suffering.
After Gandhi married in 1958, the South African government told him that his wife, Sunanda, would not be allowed to live in South Africa, and Gandhi moved to India, where he worked as a journalist for The Times of India for 30 years.
Arun and Sunanda Gandhi founded the Gandhi Institute, which is hosted by the Christian Brothers University in Memphis, in 1991.
www.brynmawr.edu /news/2004-10-07/gandhi.shtml   (296 words)

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